ITV News Sheffield – RIP
GeneralPublished May 8, 2010 at 4:36 pm 1 Comment
Calendar South Office
The following extract is from Wikipedia:
Although Yorkshire Television claims to serve the whole of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, it has long been contended by many of the people of Sheffield that Yorkshire Television shows an unacceptable bias towards West Yorkshire in general and Leeds in particular.
This alleged bias was seldom better illustrated than when Sheffield Wednesday won an unlikely League Cup Final in 1991 against Manchester United. Extended highlights of the game and post-match celebrations were available and individual ITV stations were left to decide whether to show them; London Weekend Television showed the additional half-hour, but Yorkshire Television opted to stay with their scheduled programme, War of the Monster Trucks. YTV had opened a smaller Calendar News studio in Sheffield and introduced an opt-out for the South of the region prior to the War of the Monster Trucks incident, possibly to counter accusations of bias.
The Sheffield news staff were relocated in 2008.
I agree!
YTV is biased towards Leeds and has a few other bias behaviours as well. Yorkshire isn’t enormous, but there are differences from north, south, east and west. All of the areas deserve even coverage. YTV, stands for Yorkshire Television, not LTV meaning Leeds Television!